When the World Goes Quiet

by Gian Sardar

Isn’t it wonderful, when what someone perceives is even better than what’s there?

“Right and wrong—those ideas not only depend on who tells the story, but on when the story stops.

They’ve taken too much already—don’t give them more by blaming yourself. Be angry, not guilty.”

But the need to be right—to insist you are right—has caused more problems in the world than actually being wrong.

Maybe it’s the journey humans need. But every so often, a war or a plague or what have you. A hundred years pass, and our streets look different, so different that we think we’re nothing like the people who came before us. Our situations, our circumstances, they’re all new. They must be, we think, because we’re so different. We want to be different.

A hundred years ago, two hundred years ago. The same lessons learned differently. And no matter when it is, you can guarantee something’s waiting in the wings to make us feel broken, but more importantly, to force us to find a way through.”

“It’s too bad we’re not able to be friends with our parents before becoming their children, isn’t it?”